The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 06

crossword answers
Clue Answer
The beasts driven by a “bullocky” in Australia OXEN
A person unable to resist a compulsion to steal KLEPTOMANIAC
A subtle difference in meaning, colour or tone NUANCE
An Antipodean traveller’s bundle of belongings SWAG
Starburst is to Opal Fruits as Snickers is to ____ MARATHON
Large Scottish broadsword CLAYMORE
Comic verse, usually in irregular measure DOGGEREL
Thelwell’s ____ was one of Norman Thelwell’s cartoon books GYMKHANA
The usual “pigs” in pigs in blankets CHIPOLATAS
Writing implement first patented by American John J Loud in 1888 BALLPOINT PEN
Former White House intern who now campaigns against cyberbullying Monica Lewinsky
The tenor sax player heard on Astrud Gilberto’s recording of The Girl from Ipanema Stan Getz
1965 song featuring a John Entwistle bass solo My Generation
Anne Hegerty is “____” on ITV’s The Chase The Governess
Lime-based plaster used for decorative mouldings STUCCO
“I’m a creep, I’m a ____” (Creep, Radiohead) WEIRDO
American cartoon character often kidnapped by Bluto Olive Oyl
Sportsperson often competing over a distance of 51.5 km TRIATHLETE
African city where Churchill and Roosevelt had a conference in January 1943 CASABLANCA
Actress who rose to international fame in Love Story Ali MacGraw
Operatic princess whose maid is Brangäne ISOLDE
City where Toblerone is currently exclusively made BERN
“The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven” (John ____) MILTON
Creature which is a staple food for pangolins and echidnas ANT
“Beware ____” (Shakespeare) The Ides of March
What Australia marked on January 26, 1988 BICENTENNIAL